Just weeks after Texas counties tried to purge their voter rolls by eliminating supposedly deceased voters (many of whom beg to disagree), it turns out that a firm hired by the Republican National Committee may have been registering truly deceased Republicans to vote in Florida.

In ironic turn of events, the Republicans who have been strong proponents of the Voter ID laws, insisting that voter fraud does in fact exist, are now smack dab in the middle of a voter fraud investigation.

A real, live criminal investigation.

The main player in this investigation is Nathan Sproul, a veteran GOP consultant, and his firm Strategic Allied Consulting.

What is the cherry on top for the Democrats is that Sproul has a long history of suspected voter fraud dating back to 2004 and 2008 campaigns and was still hired by the RNC for this election cycle. His firm was paid $3 million to get out the vote in the swing states for the 2012 elections.

To combat prior as well as the recent allegations, Strategic Allied Consulting’s website now features a lengthy defense against the claims of voter registration fraud.

The firm asserts that it has:

“never tolerated even minimal violations of election law when registering voters.”

“trained every one of our more than 4,000 contractors in proper voter registration procedures before they hit the street.” According to them all contractor had passed a background check, have watched training videos and have signed documents stating that they are familiar with elections laws.

been cleared of all past wrongdoing. “To respond to inquiries surrounding events that took place in 2004, four independent investigations were conducted and in the end Sproul and Associates was cleared of any wrongdoing.”

In face of the current allegations of voter fraud registration, all of those past allegation are just ammunition for the Democrats, who have taken the “Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me” approach and blame the RNC for hiring a firm with a history of suspected voter fraud.

Sproul says that the RNC did not hire him unknowingly.

“In order to be able to do the job that the state parties were hiring us to do, the [RNC] asked us to do it with a different company’s name, so as to not be a distraction from the false information put out in the Internet,” Sproul told the Los Angeles Times.

After the allegation of the current voter fraud surfaced, the RNC cut ties with Sproul’s firm last week on Wednesday. “We severed our relationship. We acted swiftly and boldly,” RNC spokesman Sean Spicer told the Los Angeles Times, noting the party’s “zero tolerance” for voter fraud.

“[The RNC] knew who they were talking to,” Bill Brannon, executive director of the Texas Democratic Party, told the Houston Chronicle. According to him, associating with Sproul “doesn’t say much about [the RNC’s] motivations.”

When asked whether the Texas Democratic Party has hired consultants to assist them with voter registration, Brannon said that it hasn’t.

“But we aren’t against it,” he said, adding that when working with consultants parties need to ensure that proper quality controls are in place.

Rep. Charles A. Gonzalez, the ranking member on the House Subcommittee on Elections, issued a statement yesterday in which he pointed out that this latest incident hurts Republicans, who are strong proponents of Voter I.D. laws.

“There is a sad irony that the same people who demand restrictive voter ID and registration laws to prevent fraud they cannot find would hire a man known to engage in questionable voter registration practices and then fall silent when he is suspected of repeating those unacceptable practices. While I was pleased to see that the discovery of these abuses ended Mr. Sproul’s business with the Republican Party of Florida, that is not enough. I hope that the Republican National Committee, its Chairman, and the Romney campaign are all working right now to end their affiliations with Mr. Sproul and his associates and assure that there is no repetition of such acts.”